Marshal Royal: Jazz Survivor (Bayou Press) - Hardcover
A vivid document of life during the big band era.
Marshal Royal was a core member of the Count Basie Orchestra for twenty years during its resurgence in the 1950's and 1960's. Before that, he was a pioneer of jazz on the West Coast, playing with many bands in and around Los Angeles. A child prodigy of both the violin and saxaphone, Royal was literally born on the road as his musician parents made their way West.
Royal shares his experiences with Les Hite's Band at Sebastian's New Cotton Club, where he worked with jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller. He became a founding member and "straw boss" of Lionel Hampton's Orchestra after a wartime career in U.S. Navy bands. After leaving Hampton, Royal made countless recordings as a freelancer before joining Basie, where he was responsible for rehearsing the Orchestra. Later, he became internationally known as a soloist while continuing his prolific recording career. His brother, Ernie, who was a star trumpeter in the bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton, is also profiled.
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Claire P. Gordon is the editor of Rex Stewart's memoir, Boy Meets Horn, and of Stewart's other collections of writings. She lives on the West Coast and has a long-term interest in the oral history of jazz.
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"Concentrated and never-less-than interesting."
-Raymond Horricks, Crescendo & Jazz Music
"Marshal reveals a prodigious memory for names, places, incidents, and engagaements with a fund of anecdotes which fill this book."
-Eddie Cook, Jazz Journal International
"Enjoyable reading...This is the closest you can get to history without actually living it."
-Robert Tate, Jazz Now
"Concentrated and never-less-than interesting."
-Raymond Horricks, Crescendo & Jazz Music
-Raymond Horricks, Crescendo & Jazz Music
"Marshal reveals a prodigious memory for names, places, incidents, and engagaements with a fund of anecdotes which fill this book."
-Eddie Cook, Jazz Journal International
"Enjoyable reading...This is the closest you can get to history without actually living it."
-Robert Tate, Jazz Now
"Concentrated and never-less-than interesting."
-Raymond Horricks, Crescendo & Jazz Music
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- PublisherContinuum Intl Pub Group
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0304338362
- ISBN 13 9780304338368
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages180
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